TREVOR’S BACK

Over the four days of the NSW AC Men’s Open held last week Trevor Bassett pulled out a sensational and exciting performance. He won the block format tournament undefeated with 11 wins comprising 1 sextuple peel, 5 triple peels, 1 tpo and 4 boring old 26-something peg-out wins. Seeing this sort of performance is inspiring. The full results grid can be found at croquetscores.com/2014/ac/nsw-mens-singles/block (or on this website here).

Also notable during the comp was the tight battle for second place between Alan Walsh (eventual runner-up with 9 wins) and Ted Salter, Jim Nicholls and Tim Murphy who all finished with 8 wins and at least one triple peel a piece. Tim’s performance is a welcome return to competition after a long break due to sickness and Ted Salter is a rapid improver playing controlled breaks.

It is good to see enthusiastic higher-handicapped players entering a field such as this. The fact that these players actually made breaks and won some games just goes to prove that it does not matter how fabulous your opponent, if you hit the lift and make a break the mouse can beat a tiger.

Alix Verge